expression:

• Look for a big tree when you want shelter; Serve the powerful for your own good

~の noun / noun:

• unpromoted (piece) - Shōgi term

noun:

• limit orders that become market orders at the closing auction if not already executed

expression / noun:

• person of strong constitution unexpectedly falling ill; sickness of a stout man; the devil getting sunstroke [literal]

noun:

• wearing next to the skin (e.g. shoes without socks, trousers without underwear)

expression:

• wasting one's breath (trying to explain something); (reading) the Analects of Confucius to a dog [literal] - idiom

noun:

• points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank) - Mahjong term

expression:

• no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after - after past tense verb ➜ かと思うと
• at the thought of; when I think about ➜ かと思うと

expression:

• no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after - after past tense verb
• at the thought of; when I think about

noun:

• sending off a customer (e.g. to the closest train station)
• sending customers (somebody's way)

noun:

• Surya (Hindu sun god also revered as one of the twelve devas in Shingon Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 十二天
• sun - archaism

noun:

• Surya (Hindu sun god also revered as one of the twelve devas in Shingon Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 日天子
• sun - archaism

noun:

• Chandra (Hindu moon god also revered as one of the twelve devas in Shingon Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 十二天
• moon - archaism

noun:

• Chandra (Hindu moon god also revered as one of the twelve devas in Shingon Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 月天子
• moon - archaism

noun:

• first song or chirp, etc. (in the year) of a particular bird or insect species

noun:

• helicopter money; stimulating the economy by distributing newly printed money to consumers - Economics term

noun:

• first wholesale produce market of the year (usu. auction of seafood, fruit, etc.)

expression:

• no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after - after past tense verb ➜ かと思うと
• at the thought of; when I think about ➜ かと思うと

noun:

• Blue Sky with a White Sun; party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)

expression:

• time flies; like watching a white horse run by through a gap in the wall (Zhuangzi) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• warbler flying from a valley to a tree - orig. meaning ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• finding success in life ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• passing the palace examination ➜ 進士【しんし】

noun / ~する noun:

• pressing; stamping; printing

noun:

• press (machine)
• the press; news media

noun / ~する noun:

• military press (weight lifting)

noun:

• male and female (animals); the two sexes
• victory and defeat; strengths and weaknesses

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to control; to take the lead in; to have under one's thumb

noun:

• daily employment; hiring by the day; day laborer; day labourer

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand on tiptoe; to rise in the world; to become arrogant